Pam Herd
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University. PI, Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
@ColbyCollege alum
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Institutionalizing inequality in the courts: Decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in detention, conviction, and sentencing*
A significant body of literature has examined racial and ethnic inequalities in sentencing, focusing on how individual court actors make decisions, but fewer scholars have examined whether disparitie...
Trump’s Tax Law Threatened TurboTax’s Profits. So the Company Started Charging the Disabled, the Unemployed and Students. — ProPublica
The move by TurboTax maker Intuit to charge more lower-income customers has helped boost revenue.
Dismantling Inequities and Injustices in Health Care and Public Health: Part Five of DSJ’s series on Dismantling White Supremacy - Luma
Racism and white supremacy are evident in health care and public health systems, especially in terms of service access, processes, quality, and outcomes. In this webinar, we will discuss:
1) Inequity and injustice in health care;
2) Efforts to...
NYC vows to address special education failures detailed in state review
Whether those reforms result in significant changes on the ground will have enormous consequences: There are more than 224,000 students with disabilities in the city’s public schools, a population that alone would rank among the nation’s 10 largest...
Former judge whose stance on abortion led to controversy
MR JUSTICE RORY O'HANLON: Roderick (Rory) Joseph O'Hanlon, who died on March 24th aged 78, was a highly-regarded judge of the…
'I cry before work': US essential workers burned out amid pandemic
Essential workers reported stress caused by increased workloads, understaffing, fears over Covid and struggles in enforcing social distancing
Substitute teacher charged with welfare fraud
A substitute teacher is facing a felony welfare fraud charge alleging she lied about her income in order to collect Medical Assistance benefits to which she was not entitled.
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UK universities recruit record numbers of international students
Ucas says institutions have seen a 9% increase, as 44,300 students are set to start studies
Higher Education in Science and Engineering | NSF - National Science Foundation
This report examines trends in U.S. S&E higher education within a global context. It contains information on U.S. higher education institutions, including S&E degree awards, student demographics, cost, and debt. S&E fields have grown at all degree...
Actually, Voting Is Pretty Safe
Experts now say the health risk of casting an in-person ballot is relatively low. Will Democrats tell their voters that?
Reopening for In-Person Classes May Have Caused Thousands of Covid-19 Cases a Day, Study Finds
The resumption of face-to-face instruction, which prompted far more students to return to campuses, resulted in 1,000 to 5,000 additional cases per day.
Op-Ed: Clerking for Justice Ginsburg, we learned about the law — but also about love
Several years after our clerkships ended, Justice Ginsburg performed our wedding, wishing us the same kind of happiness she had shared with her husband, Marty.
Nursing Homes Oust Unwanted Patients With Claims of Psychosis
They are finding what families say are pretexts to send patients to hospitals for psychiatric care — and then refusing to let them return.